Evangelical Church (Oberwetz)

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Church in Oberwetz
View from the north

The Evangelical Church in Oberwetz in Central Hesse in the municipality of Schöffengrund is a baroque hall church from the 17th century. It has a rectangular choir and a roof turret . The building is a Hessian cultural monument due to its historical and urban significance .

history

Oberwetz is referred to as "Wetiffa" in the Lorsch Codex in 832 , which can refer to Oberwetz and Niederwetz as well as the Wetzbach. In 1261 there was a church that was consecrated to John the Baptist and in 1298 a parish in the sending place of Oberwetz. In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the Archipresbyterat Wetzlar in the Archidiaconate St. Lubentius Dietkirchen in the Archdiocese of Trier .

The Reformation was probably introduced under Pastor Maximilian Fabri (1527–1568). The parish changed to the Reformed Confession in 1582 under Count Konrad von Solms-Braunfels . During the Thirty Years War, the place became Catholic again for a few years under the Spaniards (1626-1632), until the Swedes made it possible to return to the Evangelical Reformed faith. Oberquembach was a subsidiary of Oberwetz in the post-Reformation period until 1717 and was then raised to an independent parish together with Niederquembach.

In 2019, the choir and the porch were laid with red sandstone slabs, the lighting was renewed and the colors of the church inventory were refreshed.

The parish today belongs to the Evangelical Church District on Lahn and Dill in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

architecture

Roof turret

The geostete white-plastered hall building with a rectangular Ostschluss is built to the north of the old town center. From the outside the choir is only raised by a protruding wall. Inside, a large arch opens the choir to the ship. The interior is illuminated on the south side by four large arched windows and on the north side by three small rectangular windows. The east side has no windows. The western porch is more recent and serves as an entrance area. It has a gable roof and a small canopy over the high rectangular entrance door on the south side. Compared to the ship it is lower and drawn in. Outside on the south wall there is a gray tombstone with a winged angel's head in the round arch field.

On the north side of the shingled gable roof are three small dormers and a slender, shingled roof turret in the middle. The sound openings for the bells are embedded in the cuboid shaft. The four-sided pointed helmet is crowned by a tower knob, an ornate cross and a wind direction indicator.

Furnishing

Pulpit (around 1700)
View to the east

The church furnishings are dominated by the colors red, ocher and white. Inside, the flat ceiling rests on the round choir arch in a red frame with ocher-colored profiles. The north gallery is led through the arch. The gallery rests on red wooden posts with ocher-colored bows and has an ocher-colored parapet with white, rectangular panels. The narrow west gallery bears the Bible verses “WHERE ARE YOU? Genesis 3 ”and“ WHERE'S YOUR BROTHER? Genesis 4 ”. The eastern choir gallery serves as the installation site for the organ.

The wooden polygonal pulpit from around 1700 is placed on the south side of the choir arch. Fluted three-quarter columns on cantilevered platforms structure the pulpit fields, which have rectangular coffers. The lower frieze bears the circumferential inscription: "ALONE GOTT DIE HONRE". The block altar made of black Lahn marble is also from the construction period . An oil painting from 1877 on the south wall in front of the choir arch shows the representation of Christ . The floor in the anteroom and in the choir is covered with slabs of red sandstone. In the nave is a grain wood -Parkett of fir and spruce laid. The simple church stalls have curved cheeks.

organ

Historical organ prospect from 1800

In 1701 an unknown organ builder built a new organ . Friedrich Dreuth built a side-playing instrument from 1798–1800 that had ten stops on a manual and pedal . The five-axis prospectus has an elevated, round central tower and two pointed towers on the outside. The connecting pipe flat fields have combat ledges over which a winged angel's head is attached. A profiled cornice is pulled through to the central tower. The lower cornice has consoles under the three towers , the middle of which is supported by a winged angel's head. Openwork tendrils form the side blind wings and the crowning case structure. Organ builder Friedrich Weigle replaced the interior work in 1930, including the historical baroque prospectus. Later, a free-standing console was set up under the organ gallery and the pneumatic action was electrified. After a renovation by Orgelbau Hardt , the disposition with seven registers is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
II Manual C – f 3
Salicional 8th'
flute 4 ′
mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Peal

The roof turret houses two late medieval bells. The hood of the Johannes bell is pierced, on the inside there are traces of a modern re-tuning.

No. Surname Casting year Caster Weight diameter Chime inscription image
1 John 1494 unmarked 635 mm e ′ ′ Evangelical Church Oberwetz Bell 1.jpg
2 Christ 15th century unmarked 600 mm f ′ ′ “COSOVOGSOVA…” (illegible),
relief of the crucified without a cross [sic].		 Evangelical Church Oberwetz Bell 2.jpg

literature

  • Friedrich Kilian Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. Part: 2. The statistics, topography and local history of the district. Wigand, Wetzlar 1836, pp. 136-137 ( online ).
  • Folkhard Cremer (Red.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: Gießen and Kassel administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 .
  • Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955].
  • Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hesse-Nassau area (= writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 203.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.); Reinhold Schneider (arrangement): Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Wetzlar (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1900-1 , pp. 441-445.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Pfarrkirche Oberwetz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (ed.): Evangelical Parish Church In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
  2. ↑ Abicht: The district of Wetzlar presented historically, statistically and topographically. 1836, p. 136 ( online )
  3. ↑ Kleinfeldt, Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. 1984, p. 203.
  4. ↑ Oberwetz. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on July 19, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Festival and home book for Oberquembach and the Schöffengrund. Oberquembach [1955], [p. 32].
  6. ↑ Kirchenkreis an Lahn und Dill , accessed on July 19, 2020.
  7. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history . Volume 7.2 ). tape 2 : The area of ​​the former administrative district of Wiesbaden. Part 2: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1975, ISBN 3-7957-1307-2 , p. 705 .
  8. ↑ Hellmut Schliephake: Bell customer of the district of Wetzlar. In: Heimatkundliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lahntal e. V. 12th yearbook. 1989, ISSN  0722-1126 , pp. 5-150, here p. 140.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 40.4 "  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 47.2"  E